Kjell Aukrust var en av Norges mest folkekjære humorister i ord og strek gjennom siste halvdel av 1900-tallet. Med sine illustrerte småstubber fra barndommen bidrog han mer enn noen annen til å gjøre …
John Saul is an American author best known for his bestselling suspense and horror novels, many of which have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list. Born in Pasadena and raised in Whittier, …
Art Spiegelman is an American cartoonist, editor, and cultural innovator whose work has profoundly influenced the perception of comics as a legitimate art form, blending literary sophistication with e…
Lemony Snicket had an unusual education and a perplexing youth and now endures a despondent adulthood. His previous published works include the thirteen volumes in A Series of Unfortunate Events, The …
The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, Annie Ernaux is considered by many to be France’s most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won…
Erlend Loe is a Norwegian novelist. He worked at a psychiatric clinic, and was later a freelance journalist for Norwegian newspaper Adresseavisen. Loe now lives and works in Oslo where in 1998 he co-f…
Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870) was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. Hi…
Frode Grytten (born December 11, 1960 in Odda) is a Norwegian writer and journalist. He is the author of the Brage award-winning novel Bikubesong ('Song of the Beehive'), and other collections of shor…
Amalie Skram (22 August 1846 – 15 March 1905) was a Norwegian author and feminist who gave voice to a woman's point of view with her naturalist writing. She moved to Denmark in 1894 whe…
Åsne Seierstad is a Norwegian freelance journalist and writer, best known for her accounts of everyday life in war zones – most notably Kabul after 2001, Baghdad in 2002 and the ruined Grozny in 2006.…
Ingvar Even Ambjørnsen-Haefs (1956-2025) was a Norwegian writer. He is best known for his "Elling" tetralogy: Utsikt til paradiset (1993), Fugledansen (1995), Brødre i blodet (1996), and Elsk meg i mo…
Ingvild H. Rishøi was born and raised in Oslo and hers is a wildly willful voice in fiction. She has consistently wowed readers with her pared down yet powerful storytelling, with an acute eye for the…
Arnhild Lauveng is a Norwegian psychologist educated at the University of Oslo, who previously was diagnosed with schizophrenia. She workes as a PhD candidate at Akershus University Hospital (AHUS), at…
Born in Honningsvåg in 1974, grew up in Tromsø and is currently living in Oslo, Norway. Has worked on a lot of different project, including theater plays and working as text writer for the very popula…
Helga Flatland har bachelorgrad i Nordisk språk og litteratur fra Universitetet i Oslo og har tatt treårig utdanning på tekstforfatterlinjen på Westerdals School of Communication. Hun debuterte med ro…
Mímir Kristjánsson er samfunnsdebattant, forfatter og politiker. Han har vært nyhetssjef i Klassekampen, og har i tillegg til Jon Michelet. En Folkets helt (2021) gitt ut bøkene Mamma er trygda (2019)…
Tracy Rees is a Cambridge graduate with a degree in Modern and Medieval Languages. After an eight-year career in nonfiction publishing, she worked as a counselor for people with cancer and their famil…
Oliver Lovrenski (b. 2003) grew up in Norway and has a Croatian background. His literary debut, Back in the Day, is an intense, poetic and raw coming-of-age novel from contemporary city life.
